Filmmaking has always been obsessed with the representation of technological bodies the waysthose technological bodies challenge and change our carefully mapped world. This panel will seekto address the theories, narratives, and cultural stakes involved in these representations. What aredefined as â€œtechnological bodiesâ€? How do different films define the technological body differently?To what extent are all bodies represented as technological? How are notions of progress and/orstasis negotiated through representations of technological bodies? How do specific genreformulate technological bodies? Papers which discuss a specific film, filmmaker, type oftechnological body (i.e. android, train, computer, prosthetic human parts, etc.) are also welcome.

Abstracts should be 250-300 words and sent to maggiegover_at_mac.com by February 15, 2008.